Barbara Hood
57 Yarraman Road
Noble Park 3174
14 February 2000
Mrs D.M. Harrup
37 Sunderland Court
Traralgon Vic 3844
Dear Mrs Harrup
I am writing seeking your permission to use an article you have written
about "Agnes Buntine" I would like to retype your article (of which I'll
forward a copy to you).
Some years ago I came across her name in the newspapers and have been
intrigued about her ever since. I intend to research the life of Agnes
Buntine. One article that I have says that she was " a lady of unbounded
bravery and great strength" this alone was enough to catch my
imagination.
My family is from Gippsland my mother's maiden name was Jean
Christensen she lived out a Glengary, but now resides in Melbourne.
Mum is about 78 (but looks much younger) and keeps good health.
I am hopeful that you will allow me to reproduce you article and look
forward to hearing from you. I have enclosed a stamped address
envelope.
Yours faithfully
Barbara Hood
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ReplyDeleteMICHAEL DAWE HALLETT
ReplyDeleteAgnes Hallett's (Buntine)' second husband, Michael Dawe Hallett, died in Devonport Tasmania on 19 August 1913 at age 69. .
HUGH SYMINGTON BUNTINE [son of Hugh Buntine & his first wife] Agnes' stepson],
Refer photo: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/96493433
Hugh S Buntine's grave is the stone monument on the right.
If you look in the top left corner of this photo you can see a cypress tree next to stone monument. The actual grave of HUGH BUNTINE [senior] is between the tree and the monument at PLAN 1 - Grave 90 and is right on fenceline in the South West corner of Rosedale cemetery.
Hugh Symington Buntine, aged 34 years, died in a fall from his horse in 1868, a year after his father, and is buried next to Agnes in the grave with the blank stone monument. [Plan 2 - grave 16] .
I covered the blank stone headstone of Hugh S Buntine [Plan 2 - Grave 16] with blackout curtains and examined it for writing with a 365 Nanometre UV CSI torch. All the organic material [moss] and minerals within the stone lit up under UV light but I found no evidence of writing although the close up DSLR photo clearly shows areas that look like faded writing. It does look like someone has used a wire brush on this gravestone giving the illusion of faded writing.
ELIZABETH FOLEY [BUNTINE]
The grave of Elizabeth Foley [CofE - Grave 143] says: " Relict of HUGH S BUNTINE of Holey Plains, died 25th August 1900 aged 64 years". It is possible that the old burnt out wooden marker for Agnes Hallett once said something similar such as " Agnes Hallett, Relict of HUGH BUNTINE of Flynns Creek ... " but all that could be read in 1996 was " ...... HUGH BUNTINE of Flynns Creek" . This is making excuses for the Buntine family as they should have thoroughly checked the cemetery records in 1996 and realised that Hugh Buntine was buried in an unmarked grave in the South West corner some 80 metres away [PLAN 1 - Grave 90].
Pat Davis, Glen Waverley Victoria
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SALE COUNTY COURT. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25th. 1880 (Before His Honour Judge Nolan.)
ReplyDeleteHALLETT V. JACKSON ORR. - Action to recover £250 for breach of agreement. Mr Bushe for plaintiff, Mr Bencraft for defendant.
The facts in this case were much the same as disclosed in the action heard at last sittings for detenu, &c.
There was a mortgage held over the 111 farm of the late Hugh Buntine at Flinn's Creek, amounting to £250, and the property was sold by order of the mortgagee. Plaintiff, who is the widow of Buntine, requested her son-in-law, the defendant, to purchase it, agreeing to make over any interest she held in her late husband's will on condition that he found for her a home during her lifetime. Defendant consented to do so, stipulating however that plaintiff should not bid at the sale, or interfere in any way.
She did make a bid at £295. Orr topped it at £300, and became owner of the property, intimating immediately afterwards to her that he did not consider himself bound by the agreement, she having broken it. Mrs Hallett considered that she had made the bid in his interest, inasmuch as those at the sale knowing her as an old resident were not likely to compete against her. Orr apparently acquiesced in this view.
At any rate, in pursuance of the agreement, Mrs Hallett continued to reside on the property, and kept house for two months, Orr supplying rations, and Hallett farming the land. At the suggestion of the gentleman who drew up the agreement, Orr marked off a selection of nine acres adjacent, for his mother-in-law, and agreed to put up a house for her and her husband to reside in. This selection was fenced in by Hallett, and also cropped by him, but the house was never built.
On the night of 10th October last [1880], plaintiff and her husband were dispossessed by Orr, although it was raining, and turned out of the house, with an intimation that her conduct in bidding at the sale released him from the agreement. It was alleged by defendant that although he gave only £300 for the property, and had since sold it for £950, he had first to lay out £150 on improvements and repairs, and was also liable to pay £50 to each of Mrs Hallett's two daughters.
His Honour considered that the alleged breach of one condition of the agreement had been condoned by defendant, and therefore he should endeavour to give effect to it. Mrs Hallett's bid at the sale did not seem to have prejudiced defendant, nor to have been designed for that purpose. Considering all the surroundings and the fact that plaintiff's husband was a comparatively young man able to support her, His Honour held that she was entitled to forty weeks' maintenance at 12s 6d a week-£24, and to £20 for the loss of her crops on the 9 acres selection sold by Orr. Costs to be taxed. The court then adjourned sine die